ES 110 Lecture 7.2 - figure 11

ES 110 Lecture 7.2 - Myth and Meaning - Figure 11

Figure 11

Winter Count, Yankton Lakota, 1900-1910.
Ink and pigment on cotton cloth.
This winter count was produced on the Fort Totten Reservation in North Dakota.
Read from the lower left and spiraling towards the center, the piece chronicles the years 1823 to 1911.
A Nakota transliteration appears by each entry, probably added by a school teacher.

· 1823 - They left the corn standing (bottom right going across to the left).

· 1833 - The stars fell, Leonid meteor shower seen in No. America.

· 1837, 1838 - Great smallpox epidemic.

· 1877 - The year of the withering winter, extremely harsh winter, Yanktonai Sioux's first year on reservation (2nd row from top, right of center).